Illustration of the fabulous & beautiful baby, Sally Zou for W+K’s inhouse project. Click here if you have no fucking clue what I’m on about.
P.S. On the other hand, please note the usage of 2 largely misinterpreted symbols are a Cross of St. Peter & an inverted Nazi swastika which is this respectively. So… there’s nothing brutal about the image but my rather apt representation of a misunderstood person. Nuff said.
Designs for W+K Shanghai window panels. Fellow friends, Ellie & Driv covered the 4th & 3rd level while I worked on the 5th. Here’s an excerpt of the BS which came with the press release:
“谁说一定需要足够的场地来展示作品呢？我们早已找到了向公众展示W+K和中国本土优秀人才的绝佳空间——W+K上海办公室的玻璃幕墙。首次展览作品来自我们创意组的三位设计师，他们包办了办公室三层楼的窗贴设计，以此展现W+K的活力和精神。
三幅“巨作”以天堂、人间以及地狱命名，来听一下他们各自的独到见解吧。
《天堂》设计师—Morris Lee
元素的构建来自我理想中的W+K上海天堂，如果存在的话。基本上我只是混搭了一些东方神话如笑佛、宝塔，某些青年文化元素如愚蠢朋克乐队、快乐分裂乐队主音伊恩·柯蒂斯随身携带并因此声名远扬的VoxPhantom吉他、暴力反抗机器乐队的标志以及Wii的遥控器等等，当然还少不了办公室某些同事的肖像。
Who says you need space to showcase artwork? Using our office window, we found a perfect canvas to display the talent of both WKers and local Chinese talents to the public. Our first exhibition deals with window stickers by 3 of our creative team that cover 3 floors of our office, to showcase W+K’s energy and spirit.
Divided into Heaven, Earth, and Underworld, here’s what each artist has to say about their work.
From Heaven: Morris Lee
A construction of elements drawn from what I felt is the perfect representation of W+K Shanghai’s heaven… Should there be one.
Basically I just mashed up eastern mythology stuff eg. the Hotei, pagodas along with some youth cultural icons like Daft Punk, the infamous Vox Phantom carried by Ian Curtis, vocal, references to RAGE against the machine, WII remote etc. And yeah there’s some portraits of people from the office.”
I have been wanting to put this up for sometime. but couldn’t get my lazy ass off to do it.
A recorded minimix I did for W+K Shanghai Halloween party before I join the VJs & Yaya, a much proper DJ took over… haha! It was kinda a last minute effort and I felt a bit bad for playing too much Ed Banger stuff… but fuck it, here it goes:
Archives of Pain - Manic Street Preachers
Dog - Sebastian
Let There Be Light - Justice
Positif - Mr Oizo
Sexy Results (MSTRKRFT remix) - DFA 1979
Let’s Make Love to DFF (SMD remix) - CSS
The One (The Black Ghost remix) - Trabant
Waters of Nazareth (Erol Alkan’s Durr Durr Durrrrrr Re-Edit) - Justice
Smack My Bitch Up - The Prodigy
Oh! - Boys Noize
Flat Beat (Computer Club remix) - Mr Oizo
Click here to download.
& to go along with that, heres 2 vids of the Halloween VJ session that Francis and I did while Yaya is spinning. :D
An on-going W+K inhouse project curated by Weiwei. Artists of the agency gets to pick a staff (sorta like a lottery) and they’ll illustrate or present it in any form on a canvas. I picked Lofai, a senior copywriter and Weiwei, an art director. Mister Lofai was presented in my usual style while with Weiwei, I chose a style which I haven’t done for a long time… but anyways there’s still a long list of people I have picked but haven’t got the time to work on it. :P
A submission for an in-house competition curated by Weiden + Kennedy Shanghai. It managed to win both the tote bag and mug categories, and was sold throughout the W+K global network. So… what has the artwork got to do with the ecosystem? It’s actually a representation of a spectrum of possibilities of our future ranging from the bad to good depending on our attitudes to the environment. ;)
The production of the final product honestly wasn’t that fab. It really could have been much much better…
